Oloroso VORS - Lustau Winery

Lustau Wineries

50 cl bottle

Bodegas Lustau produces a range of VORS (Very Old Rare Sherry) wines, aged wines qualified and certified by the Sherry Wine Regulatory Council, which guarantees that they have aged for at least 30 years. Subject to a strict selection that results in only a thousand 50 centiliter bottles of each one of them. Lustau VORS (Very Old Rare Sherry) Oloroso has its origin in the search and selection that Manuel Lozano, Lustau's winemaker, carried out among the oldest soleras of this wine that the company ages in its Jerez wineries.

Q Cupping Score: Parker 93; Penin 95.

Description

Data sheet:

Store: Lustau Fine Selected Wines

DO Jerez-Xerés-Sherry

Average age 30 years

Variety: 100% Palomino

Grade: 21,0% vol.

Tasting note:

Old gold in color with greenish reflections. On the nose, aromas of bitter orange and toffee stand out, with hints of honey and a spicy background. Its concentration is reminiscent of Jerez brandy. Reminiscences of toasted coconut, with a bright acidity. Immensely long finish.

Operating temperature: 13-14ºC.

Viticulture: Lustau owns two vineyards in Marco de Jerez, Viña Montegilillo, with albariza lands, very suitable for growing Palomino grapes, from where it obtains the musts for the production of manzanilla, the fine, amontillados and odorous ones. And Viña Las Cruces, near the coast, with sandy soils where they grow Moscatel and Pedro Ximénez, destined for the production of sweet wines.

Preparation: Oloroso VORS Lustau is a wine made from the Palomino Fino grape. Selecting the oldest soleras, with more than 30 years, this oloroso is born from the barrels with more structure to directly carry out oxidative aging, leading to 17% vol. alc. to prevent the blooming veil from developing. The long aging causes a small evaporation, concentrating the alcohol reaching, in some cases, up to graduations above 20% vol. alc.

Pairing: Mushrooms, Roasted red meats, Cured cheeses, Aperitif, Large game. Serve in a wide-mouthed glass. We recommend enjoying it slowly, appreciating how the wine evolves, its aromas and sensations.

Additional Information

Weight :	1,3 kg
do	DO Jerez-Xeres-Sherry

Information about Bodegas Lustau

Bodegas Lustau was founded in 1896 by Don José Ruiz-Berdejo. It was a modest beginning: Don José, the court clerk, cultivated the vineyards on his Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza farm. In his own vineyard house he raised the wines that he later sold to the large exporting wineries. He was a warehouseman. A warehouseman was a viticulturist who made and aged his own wines, but due to the lack of commercial contacts, he ended up selling his production to large wineries. At present, their specificity as storekeepers does not allow them to bottle wine to sell to the public, this has meant that many have been disappearing, yes, those that have remained have exceptional criaderas and soleras.

Lustau is the only winery that produces wines in the three cities of the Marco: Jerez de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa María and Sanlúcar de Barrameda.

Its vineyards receive around 3.000 hours of sunshine each year, accompanied by relatively high rainfall (600 liters per square meter on an annual average). The landscape of the area is mainly made up of hills of very white limestone, called “albariza”. Its uniqueness is due to the fact that this area was under the sea thousands of years ago. To a lesser extent, areas of mud and sand appear in areas near the coast.

Bodegas Lustau is today considered a reference worldwide when talking about top quality wines. In recent years Lustau has been awarded a multitude of international awards. The awards for Best Spanish Winery of 2011 and Best Winery of Jerez in 2014 and 2016 awarded in London by the International Wine & Spirit Competition stand out.

Lustau has been the first winery in the world to receive twice the prestigious Len Evans trophy for quality and consistency in 2011 and 2016 of the prestigious International Wine Challenge competition.

Year after year, Lustau wines also receive numerous awards and recognitions, which place the winery among the most awarded in the world. Lustau's philosophy has remained the same since its origin in 1896: to offer the consumer the widest and most select collection of Jerez specialties.